These are the faces of 35 criminals locked up following high-profile court cases covered by the ECHO this month.

The list includes the men jailed in connection with the brutal murder of Joseph McKeever and thugs now behind bars for other horrific attacks.

Also featured is a burglar who appeared to have turned his life around and, having written a book that is being turned into a film, looked to have a promising future before he threw it away with another crime.

Liverpool boxer Moore’s autobiographical novel about his time in Thai prisons has been made into a major film.

But he is now set to miss its premiere because he was jailed again on Friday.

The 45-year-old, of Dyson Street in Walton, wrote “A Prayer Before Dawn”, which has been transferred to the screen by Hurricane Films and played at the prestigious Cannes Festival.

It tells how while in prison in Thailand he was allowed to take part in the Muay Thai boxing tournaments into which “he throws himself to preserve his life and regain his freedom.”

Yet 45-year-old Moore, who has battled addiction demons for years, is now back behind bars after committing burgling a neighbour’s home - three times on the same day - and stealing items including jewellery.

As a “third strike” burglar a judge told Moore the law meant he faced a minimum term and sentenced him to two years, five months.

Jealous thug Mullin bit off his girlfriend’s ear in a cocaine-fuelled frenzy before hitting her over the head with a wrench.

The 31-year-old injured Joanna O’Gorman, 33, during a ferocious drunken attack at his home in Wellfarm Close, Walton. Miss O’Gorman escaped through a bathroom window and CSI officers later discovered the chunk of her right ear lying on the floor.

Miss O’Gorman lost at least a third of her ear and also suffered multiple cuts and bruising to her head and body.

When arrested, Mullin told police he “loved” the victim and “would never harm her”, then gave a no comment interview.

He admitted unlawful wounding last August and was set to stand trial accused of wounding with intent.

However, Mullin pleaded guilty to the more serious charge on the opening day of a trial this week.

His previous convictions include harassment and assault against another former partner.

On Friday he was jailed for nine years and made the subject of an indefinite restraining order.

Sullivan was part of a gang that shot a dog when they burst into a house in Huyton looking for cannabis.

The armed gang left after the terrifying five-minute raid but the blood of Sullivan was found on a window, leading to his arrest.

When arrested and interviewed Sullivan said he had visited the house to buy cannabis but denied being there on the night of the incident and gave a false explanation for the cut to his hand - suffered when the homeowner lashed out as he fought off the offenders.

Sullivan, of Altmoor Road, Huyton, had initially pleaded not guilty to aggravated burglary but changed his plea to guilty.

Jailing the 21-year-old for six and a half years, Judge Elizabeth Nicholls said she accepted he was not the gunman but had given support to him during the enterprise.

Judge Nicholls told Sullivan, who has never been to prison before, that it took courage to plead guilty to such a serious offence and he comes from a loving, supportive family.

45-year-old Nicholas Murphy, of Upton Green, Speke pleaded guilty to three counts of attempting to arrange or facilitate the commision of a child sex offence

Paedophile Murphy, who named himself ‘Horrible Nick’, used messaging apps to arrange the gang rape of a three-year-old boy - but was caught out by undercover police.

The 45-year-old used smartphone app Kik Messenger to discuss his sick fantasies with other paedophiles and even promised one man he could facilitate to bring a three-year-old for them to sexually abuse together.

Murphy, of Upton Green, Speke, was arrested after a group of 10 paedophiles who used the anonymous messaging program was infiltrated by undercover police who traced his location and swooped on his previous address in Cheshire.

On February 15, at Liverpool Crown Court Judge Rachael Smith sentenced Murphy to three years imprisonment for three counts of attempting to arrange or facilitate the commission of a child sex offence.

He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life, and issued with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO.)

Lee Maguire, 35, of Churchill Mansions, Runcorn, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after threatening to stab a group of youths with a knife and punching a teenage girl in Runcorn.

Drunken menace Maguire was jailed for 15 months after he propositioned a teenage girl then brandished a knife while threatening to stab a group of youths in Runcorn.

The 35-year-old, of Churchill Mansions, Runcorn, triggered a 90-minute stand-off outside the Spar shop in Halton Brook at about 7.30pm on March 4 last year when he walked past the girl and her teenage friend, asked her age then made a lewd proposal for sex.

He later pleaded guilty to affray and possessing a knife, adding to his 21 past convictions including for robbery, battery, drunk and disorderly, dishonesty, court breaches and making off without payment.

Lee Doran, 42, of Chirkdale Street in Walton was locked up for an extended sentence of five years with an extra three on licence after admitting attempted robbery, possession of a knife and breaching a criminal behaviour order

Bungling crook Doran tried to rob a bookies at knife-point but pulled off his mask and said ‘I’m only messing’ when one of his victims recognised his voice.

The 42-year-old targeted a Betfred branch where he was a regular customer – grabbing hold of one shop assistant while brandishing a 12 inch kitchen knife.

But he was told “take that mask off, I know who you are” by another staff member.

Doran, of Chirkdale Street in Kirkdale, was locked up for an extended sentence of five years in jail with an extra three on licence, after admitting attempted robbery, possession of a knife and breaching a criminal behaviour order.

The group had originally been charged with blackmail, but the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the charges due to lack of evidence.

Alan Maddocks, of Woodchurch Road, Birkenhead, and Peter Maddocks, of no fixed address, were each jailed for 56 weeks, while Morgan, of Belmont Drive, Anfield, and Scott Monaghan, of Alexander House in Sandy Lane, Seaforth, each received 52 weeks in prison.

Judge Robert Warnock, sentencing, told the gang: “In short the conspiracy was to steal from retail outlets around the country with the ATM’s targeted.

“The relevant defendants were well organised and represented a professional team of well equipped and, in my view, ruthless criminals.”

McStein of Oxford Road, Egremont, was jailed for six years; O’Brien, of Fincham Road, Huyton and Stephen Roberts, of Wilson Road, Prescot for five years and five months each; Dobbins, of Airdale Close, Prenton, for three and a half years and Brennan, of Edgemoor Close in Prenton, for 10 months.

This elderly prisoner pleaded with a judge to have him moved from the “jungle” of Walton Prison this week.

McGavin, 73, appeared before Liverpool Crown Court where he pleaded guilty to a charge of arson - admitting he was so desperate to force his drug user daughter out of their Anfield home, he set it alight.

He had been held on remand at Walton jail since the blaze on the evening of December 20 and the court was told he accepted he would receive a jail sentence.

But his barrister Charles Lander said McGavin was in poor health, describing conditions inside Walton as like “a jungle” and saying he wanted to be transferred to another prison.

The court was told a row had started between father and daughter about her lifestyle and she went to her bedroom in their home in Whitefield Way.

Martin Walsh, prosecuting, said: “While up there, she heard him shout: ‘I’ve started a fire. I’d rather go to jail then live with you’.”

On the last occasion, the court heard the pair had been involved in a “stormy relationship” and had argued in the early hours during a night out.

Looby, of Oduah Tower in Dubai, but formerly of Edge Grove in Fairfield, had originally been charged with attempted murder, but the Crown Prosecution Service agreed to accept guilty pleas to the lesser charge.

Derek Jones, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court how Valentine and the other boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, first targeted the MRM newsagents on King Street, at 10am on Sunday, January 7.

Valentine and the other boy went into the shop with their hoods up and faces covered, shouting for cigarettes and money from the till.

Mr Jones said the shop assistant thought they were joking at first but, after the other boy produced a knife and held it up towards the counter, he froze in fear.

The court was shown CCTV that showed the pair threatening the shop assistant with the large knife and stealing a bottle of cider.

They then targeted a second shop - this time the Everfresh newsagents on Rock Lane East.

The Everfresh shop assistant was having a cigarette and was on the phone outside the store when he the teens shouted: “Why are you calling the f****** police?”.

He went inside the shop and Valentine then pulled out the knife and kicked at the door, trying to get in.

Valentine admitted robbery, producing a bladed article, assault by beating and affray and was sentenced to two years and four months behind bars.

Thug Thomas tricked a student in to going to Thomas’s Holt Road, Kensington flat for a “party” - but the evening turned in to a nightmare.

The 26-year-old was lured to the flat and told his testicles would be cut off and threatened with being burned alive, while Thomas and another man - named in court as Michael Andrews - told him they wanted £1,000 or they would kill him.

Among several horrific acts, the victim was stripped naked and was punched and hit with unknown objects.

He only escaped by jumping in to oncoming traffic from a taxi as the attackers tried to force him to go to a bank to take money out.

Thomas was handed an extended sentence of 14-and-a-half years in prison, with an additional three-and-a-half years on licence, at Liverpool Crown Court after admitting robbery and burglary.

Mercuri, 32 and of Beech Street in Kensington, was locked up for three-and-a-half years after admitting helping Thomas to burgle the victim’s home and fraud in relation to trying to transfer money into his account.